Jeremy Corbyn described Israel’s “control of US foreign policy” and “Israel’s government” as having “unbelievably high levels of influence…in the higher echelons of parts of the media” in a 2009 article, it has been revealed.
Mr Corbyn, then a backbench MP, used his column in the Morning Star in January 2009 to criticise the BBC for deciding not to broadcast a Disaster Emergency Committee appeal for Gaza, saying many people believed the organisation was “out of step with humanity”.
As uncovered by investigative journalist Iggy Ostanin, Mr Corbyn wrotethat the BBC’s decision showed “the contempt the BBC directors appear to have for the views of their license payers and the unbelievably high levels of influence that that Israel’s government appears to have in the upper echelon of parts of the media.”
